Place the hands at the base of the breastbone just above the place where the lowest ribs join.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

At the base of the hair root is a small ball-like formation called a bulb.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Ball says adults should start off with exercises at the base of the pyramid, like walking or climbing stairs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

From the greenhouse, these orchids are carefully transported to the Botanic Garden, at the base of the U.S.Capitol.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

Fascinated by the training exercises conducted at the base, she promised herself she would enlist in the Marines when she was old enough.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Officials say a soldier opened fire at the base Thursday afternoon.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

An Army spokesman says all the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Veterans Day came a day after the president spoke at a memorial service at the Army base at Fort Hood,Texas.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

That was three years after the United States established a naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

A soldier at the Army base in San Francisco gave him gold colored buttons and gold cloth.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

It settles into a long, powerless slide toward the landing field at Edwards Air Force Base.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Soldiers of the new Confederate States of America shelled the Union base at Fort Sumter, built on an island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Mary later wrote it was at Sanderson that she received the base of her education.

VOA: special.2010.06.27